GAM Gilbert de Botton Award in Finance Research 2007 Results

The Financial Markets at LSE is pleased to announce Sarquis Sarquis as the winner of the GAM Gilbert de Botton Award in Finance Research 2007, for his paper on Business Cycles. The Award is made annually in recognition of outstanding research in finance. Competition was extremely high this year, with both a dramatic increase in the number of entries and in standard and academic rigour.

Sarquis Sarquis will be presented with the winner's prize of £10,000. The 1st Runner-up will receive £5,000 while the 2nd Runner-up will receive £ 2,500. The award ceremony this year will take place on the 6th of November 2007 and will be combined with a lecture by Sir Nicholas Stern FBA (IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE) entitled Governments, Markets and Climate Change .

The Financial Markets Group at LSE would like to thank GAM for their generous support that will enable us to continue our efforts to promote top quality research by talented young people in financial market behaviour and practice. Previous winners included Hassan Naqvi in 2003 who is now an Assistant Professor of Finance at National University of Singapore, Miguel Segoviano in 2004 who has also successfully competed his PhD and moved to the IMF, Peter Kondor in 2005 who is now at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and joint winners in 2006, Sridhar Arcot, now an Assistant Professor at ESSEC Business School, and Valentina Bruno, who successfully moved to the World Bank and is now at the Kogod School of Business.

Information about the GAM award competition 2008 will be posted in the FMG website in Lent term 2008.

The Award was created in honour of the late Gilbert de Botton, founder of GAM.

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